Someone I respect in the OCD community commented with a question lately asking me why I decided to wean off my medication. That question struck me. Why? Why am I doing it? Why risk it? I still have obsessions and still engage in compulsions through surely I have made significant progress in regaining my life.…
In yesterday’s post, I was discussing a little bit about how compulsions often become habits and then habits become a part of life. Sometimes as time passes, the habits don’t seem so odd or terrible. They become almost comforting, and I find that I don’t really want or feel the need to give them up.
Do you make it through your life in chunks of time? Like, there is some big “event” that you look towards and think, “Okay, I have to get to that date and then I’ll think about what comes after that point”? I do this all the time these days. I’m not sure if I used…